Protecting your intellectual property and copyright

• For the majority of firms, intellectual property (IP) is a substantial asset.
• We provide legal guidance about copyright, trade mark, design, patent, database, and format rights, know-how, and passing off.
• Protecting, enforcing and exploiting your IP can be essential for the success of your business.

For many businesses, the development, protection, exploitation, and enforcement of IP are of utmost importance. It is a complicated field of law that necessitates in-depth familiarity with all pertinent guidelines and directives.

We can assist you with the following thanks to our considerable experience in IP and copyright law:

• IP strategy – Assist in determining what intellectual property (IP) your company has, and more crucially, what IP your company should protect, along with the most efficient means of doing so.
• Copyright – Our ability to advise you on matters like software licencing is based on our in-depth knowledge of copyright law and related business concerns.
• Trademarks and designs – We can help you protect your brands and/or designs and manage the registration of trademarks and designs for your business.
• Patents and know-how – For businesses with new inventions and processes, we can advise suitable licensing arrangements.
• Research & development collaborations – if you are involved in R&D collaboration, ensuring that the correct position is adopted regarding IP ownership and exploitation is of vital importance. We can advise parties in relation to various forms of R&D collaborations, including academic and private sector collaborations.
• We provide advice on various other IP-related contracts, such as those involving IP assignment and licencing, distribution, sponsorship, merchandising, licencing of format rights, publishing, and franchising.

• We can safeguard your intellectual property rights on a national and worldwide level thanks to our connections with overseas solicitors and agents.

• Together with our dispute resolution team, we can also advise on what to do when someone else is using your IP without your permission.
• We constantly take into account your major business goals and adopt a strategic, as opposed to an academic, approach.

First-class legal advice combined with exceptional business knowledge

Due to the many solid connections we have made with accountants, trade mark and patent agents, banks, and investors, we are able to offer you not just excellent legal counsel but also sound commercial advise. The IT IP Law Group Europe, a specialised network of technology lawyers that offers pan-European coverage of commercial and technology law concerns, counts us as a member firm from the United Kingdom.

Additionally, we have gained specialised knowledge in the areas of IP licencing, acquisition, and disposal.

We work with an extensive range of clients from early-stage businesses to multinational organisations from the UK and abroad.

How we work with you

Key aspects acts for businesses and families throughout the UK. Technology has enabled us to provide a high level of service to our clients whether they are local to our offices or not. Our advice can be given in variety ways:

• Over the telephone
• Via video conferencing
• In face to face meetings

We’ll talk about how you’d like to be contacted and the best ways to get to us in our initial conversation with you.